The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Another letter from Derrynane, addressed to the people of Ireland ! Not a word, this time, about the " convulsive movement :" the stream of Mr. O'Connell's ink meanders thron,gh the margin of his paper with a smooth soft current *s . :,l it loses itself insensibly in a bog of blarney. Its drift, however, is intelligible enough. It is a pleading for time. it asks,,,that before the alternative of repeal shall be pe remptorily insisted on by the six millions, a little further interval be allowed for the purpose of trying what justice the United Parliament will give to Ireland : that is, it asks another twelvemonth, during which the author shall be permitted to enjoy the patronage of the Irish Govern ment. If that year shall leave Ireland still unredressed, then the repeal agitation is to be renewed. But meanwhile and at once, another agitation, of a petitionary character, is to be commenced. The Queen and the Parliament are to be petitioned ; deputations are to wait on each Minister ; de putations are to wait on each Member of Parliament ; and Committees of deputations are to make speeches in each great commercial and manufacturing town. Every private gentleman, and every man in business throughout England, in his parlour or his counting house, is to be beset with beggars, or bores, or both. The plague of the locusts was but a type of this frightful visi tation. For the purpose of preparing and enforcing the cloud of petitions which is thus to darken England, a new General Association is to be formed under the remarkably simple and intelligible title of " The Precursor Society ;" and into this patriotic band Mr. O'Connell invites not only all the hereditary bondsmen themselves, but all their ladies, and all their little ones—everybody, in short, by whom or for wham the sum of a shilling can be raised. At that small charge each individual is permitted to pur chase an immortal record on the enrollment list ; and " the moment it exceeds two millions the moral effect of such a demonstration will be irresistible." Who would grudge to lay out a shilling in twelve pennyworth of " moral effect ?" There is also another effect somewhat less moral to be ma naged, by the way, which is provided for with much address. Mr. O'Connell, our readers are aware, is at the head of a Joint Stock Bank, called, if we mistake not, the Na tional Provincial Bank of Ireland. Observe how care fully the crafty Director keeps his eye on the local circula tion—how naturally be contrives to make room for a little paper issue in preference to the hard coin of the realm. " The better mode," says be, " of conducting the enrol ment has been found to be for one person to undertake to collect the names and shillings of 19 other persons, and, by adding his own, then to transmit the 20 names, with a pound note." All the money is to be accounted for " ac curately and publicly." May we take the liberty of sug gesting it to some of the Precursors, who may possibly think the fee of a shillir ' s per head rather more than can be quite necessary to pay for the writing of two millions of names on a list, to ask what is intended to be done with the two millions of shillings, or rather the hundred thou sand one pound notes, which the enrolment is thus to bring in ! It does really seem a great deal of money to spend in mere press-work and paper for pe titions, even on the large scale projected by the Pre cursors. Mr. O'Connell avails himself of this occasion to explain his grounds for declining to make common cause with the English Radicals. One of his most prominent reasons is, that though he agrees with them in wishing Universal Suffrage, he dissents from them in their deside ration of Annual Parliaments. Of course he does. He is the very largest boroughmonger ever known to the British Constitution, and to any jobber of that sort an nual elections, in these times, would he marvellously troublesome and expensive. Moreover, he expresses him self generally dissatisfied with the temper of the English Radicals and their bad management, " injuring instead of serving the cause of peaceable reform, disgusting their friends, and increasing and strengthening their enemies." Can the Honourable and sensitive Member for Kilkenny condescend to retain his seat under a patron who speaks thus unkindly of him and his? We see here how Mr. O'Connell treats the Radicals : in his former letter he gave his opinion of Lord John Russell ; now let us have his judgment upon his own policy, and that of the Government of Ireland. He relates the history of' his affectionate connexion with the Whig. Ministry, and of the results p7oduccd by it, and he sums thus :—" No permanent ad vantage has been derived from all this. It is clear that so far from insuring us permanent a dvantage, the fact is, that if the Tories were to come into power to-morrow, we should lose at once all we have gainei, and be placed in a worse situation than we were before !" Such is the benefit con ferred upon Ireland by her great demagogue ; such is the success which is to induce the Irish people to come for ward by millions and trust hi n again ; such is the result of the policy for which the Whigs claim the thanks of their country, and Lord Mulgrave a step in the Peerage ; such is the testimonial to the ability of Ministers from the man who placed, and guided, and maintained them, wbohas made and who has marred them ; who has used them For his passing pur rse, end is now preparing, after one year more of squeez in r, to cast them off. They must quake, we think, at the ominous sentence alas which he disposes of them. " The Ministry, instead of increasing in power to serve us, h:lve actually become less able to carry one measure useful to Ireland." That is quiet, but conclusive. They have full warning to flit.—Tones. The .extremities s to which a factious spirit hurries un principled politicians were never so remarkable as in the renconr with which a certain pack of Newspaper writers I - .ave opened us on the report of the Irish Railway Com missioners. We had hoped that the nature of the subj, et was one which would have silenced the noisiest curs in the Tery kennel, and that at last a ground had been disco vered upon which even Orangeism itself might be expected to lay aside its virulence, and co-operate with enlightened and honest men for the relief end improvement of a most important and hitherto most neglected portion of the em pire. In this hope we have certainly been disappointed ; and we have only obtained another proof that there is no sounding the depths of the genuine Tory animosity to the public good, whether it be the extension of the franchise, or the construction of a railway. At the same time we cannot observe, without satisfaction, that the scandalous attempts that have been ma le to lower the charac'er of the document in question, and frustrate the beneficent plans unfolded by its able and enlightended authors, are confined to a few of the pal triest Orange Newspapers in Inland, and to one or two Journals here, little more exalted in reputation, and we believe possessed of very little more influence with the British public. Against such an opposition we are not afraid to trust a case so strong, so just, so clear, so deeply founded in the maturest views of the interests of Ireland, and, indeed, of the whole United Kingdom, as the Railway Commissioners have laid before the country. We are told by a weekly snarler at a project which excites his hostility, for the twofold reason that it is truly liberal and truly phi lanthropic, " that whenever a large expenditure of the people's money is in question there is a strong party ready to 'aud the advantage and proclaim the neces,ity of the disbursement." Perhaps so ; but let us tell this writer that there is another party (although fortunately not a strong one), which, if but a shilling of the public money is proposed to he expended upon an object uniling all the recommendations of being judicious, liberal, and hu mane, is equally ready to decry its utility and proclaim its extravagance, particularly when that object has obtained the sanction of a commission issued by a Government like the present. The same writer proceeds to exclaim —" Only think of the magnificent jobs in prospect !" This is said of a proposal which if it has one characteristic more strongly marked than another is its inevitable tendency to crush the jobs at present in the shell, and render it im possible for interested projectors to hatch in future any more schemes of the same feather. This is said of a re commendation which is opposed by jobbers and their organs only. Perhaps it is our Contemporary's dread of jobbing which makes him so nervously anxious to see a Tory Ad ministration again in office ; be can perceive no other aim in the plan of the Railway Commissioners but " to pro vide fnr needy patriots as contractors, surveyors, and clerks !" We shall not libel the Commissioners so foully as to defend them from imputations to which their names and stations are a sufficient answer. But the writer conti nues—" On the lines which the Commissioners found already prepared for execution, all, or nearly all, of this patronage was engrossed. To have simply reported on the feasibility of this or that scheme, and laid down general rules and principles, would have been a barren employment unworthy of the genius of Irish jobbing : so the Commis missioners resolved to quash all the nascent undertakings in favour of a gigantic plan that would bring employment, pay, and patronage to the mselves." To decide whether the s tupidity or ma lice of this passage is-the more remarkable, would be a problem of some difficulty. Does the writer re a lly suppose that th e Railway Commissioners were appointed merely to report in favour of the enterprises that had had already been set on foot ? A Commission for such a purpose wo uld have been a job indeed ; and w e kn o w of no support it would issued h w a i d th b a ut f t a h r at diff of er t e l n ie t parties by whom a Commission object h as been so corruptly latnydofsealfioshsolyehasesraiimleed:ur,Twhee Government, however, was guilty should rather say, of no such flagrant folly, a a s p t p o ro a v p e po a i n n d t Railway Commissioners with instructions . sanction certain lines already in contemp a..tio.n, ?and,,noonuer other. What were the terms of the Commission will and pleasure is that you should consier,first, as to a general system of railways for Ireland, in such. ma.n.ner, either by causing surveys to be made of the leading lines , o r otherwise, as may best tend to guide the Legislature i n the consideration of the projects that may be brought before it ; and secondly, as to the best mode of directing the development of said new and important means of in tercourse to the channels whereby th;siratest advan tages may be obtained by the isizs outlay, &o. &c." Yet, with these plain terms of the Commis- adopted ; let them prove that the lines recommended in the report are not the best for the country, and show forth the merits and beauties of their own darling projects which they are so furious with the Corn missioners for presuming to discountenance. Let them do this, and they will for once, in a life of faction and mis chief, do the public interests a service ; but if this is out of their power, in the name of common sense let them find some other charge against the objects ef their rancour than that they have, to the best of their information and ability, fulfilled the duty peremptorily imposed upon them by the Commission under which they acted. We cannot refrain from presenting our readers with the following charming specimens of the style and spirit of the warfare waged against these Commissioners and their invaluable labours. One writer calls upon the public to wake with all its eyes to the perils and dangers impending upon the coun try ; for he is credibly informed that Mr. Mahony has been on a visit to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Mount Trenchard! But this is nothing to the acute ness and vigilance of a luminary who enriches the Lime rick Chronicle with the results of his observations in Lon don. This Argus-eyed guardian of his country writes as follows :—" So close a crony is the celebrated omnibus (an elegant figure for Mr. Mahony) with the Commission ers, that one of them, with his wife, are now living in the at torney's chambers, 4, Trafalgar-square." But there is worse still. " The Government engineeer, Vignoles, is billeted in the same quarters." Truly horrible ; and yet nothing at all, gentle reader, to what is yet in store for you, for the same authority proceeds to state that Mr. Drummond, the Under Secretary for Ireland, is lodged at Morley's Hotel, next door. "Perhaps this may be all accident," adds the writer cautiously. Accident, indeed ! Not a bit of it. A plot, the public may be well assured, and one that would furnish the finest exercise for the pecu liar talents of our friend, the Standard.—Morning Chron. The Government papers are playing a very dishonest game with reference to the Corn-laws. They say these laws are in the highest degree pernicious, and that the peo ple ought to postpone everything else to the important end of causing them to be abolished. But if this be true, how happens it that the Government which they constantly praise as the best of all possible Governments should do nothing towards this abolition ? With what degree of ho nesty, candour, or credibility is it that a set of Journals at tack the Corn-laws, and hold them up to public hatred as the bane of the country, while they fulsomely eulogize a Government which puts itself in a decidedly adverse position to a repeal or to any important alteration of those laws ? In this matter, as in every other which arises out of Whig management, we find the taint of trickery and delusion. If Journalists really believe the Corn-laws to be inimical to the prosperity of the coun try, and if they think that popular meetings would be better employed in affording demonstrations against those laws than in demanding further alterations of the representative system, why is the Government left unremindcd and unblamed upon the subject? Why are these popular meetings so violently censured for censur ing the Government, when (if it be true that the abolition of the Corn-laws is the greatest and best thing that can be done for the country) the Government deserves the severest blame for not having made even the slightest offi cial move towards that abolition ? The truth seems to be, that the Whigs, having been unable to collect even the smallest scrap of popularity by what they have done, are tra ing the Corn-law repeal trick through their Journals in order to get a little popularity for what they have not &no nor mean to do. It is known thet the popular mind is a very foolish mind and very inattentive, and that its conclu sions concerning the views of Government arc chiefly drawn from the tone of the Government Journals. The impression, therefore, of the unthinking crowd, who are so mighti:y taken with the notion of "cheap bread," will be that the Government is not unfavourable to the repeal of the import duties ; and though this will be found out by and by to be all a mistake, yet by that time some other trick will probably have been thought of, and in the triumph of a fresh delusion the detection of the old one will be passed over with the habitual shamelessness of Whigs. The Whigs know that the Tories have too much regard for character to play any such game upon the Corn law question as the Government Journals are now playing. We might, without taking any decisive part upon the question, call upon the people to " agitate" against a Government which, while it professes peculiar respect for popular opinion, will not take any step in Parlia ment towards bringing about that reduction in the money price of bread which is popularly retarded as the greatest desideratum for the country. But we scorn tricky policy, even against the tricky. It is an ac knowledged principle of Tory policy that to keep things steady in the country, and to do justice to all parties under existing circumstances, the price of corn must be kept considerably above the continental ave rage. A less price than from fifty to sixty shillings for the quarter of wheat must necessarily create a confu sion, embarrassment, and distress in the affairs of the coun try, which, if continued, would bring about some fearful convulsion. It matters nothing then to the Tories—beyond being to them the cause of deep regret—that the popular ig norance and impatience should demand a repeal of the Corn laws—it matters nothing to them that popularity is to be obtained by adiocsting the vulgar and plausible side of the question—it matters nothing that what is with impertinent vanity described as " the determination of the popular mind," or the " spirit of the age," should be all in favour of free trade in foreign corn—the Tories know that this country is in no condition to bear money cheapness, with out a revolution which would entail much misery upon all classes of the people, high and low, rich and poor. The Tories will, therefore, under whatever circumstances of disadvantage they may fight the battle, continue to fight it steadily against the clamour for free trade in corn, whether that clamour be raised insidiously by a dishonest Government, or openly and sincerely by a mistaken populace. We have already shown, upon various occasions, the practical danger, and misery, and degradation which would arise from taking our supplies of food from foreign countries, and thus abandoning, to a considerable extent at all events, our own cultivation. Such a policy would place our country at the mercy of national enemies abroad, and put our working people under the yoke of manufacturing is rants at home. But there is yet a more general objec tion to be urged against the cheap-corn advocates, of which they who love justice, and a steady undisturbed progress of our national affairs, should never lose sight. This country is bound to pay twenty-eight millions of pounds sterling per annum for interest on its National Debt. The current expenses of the country may be lessened in their money amount by the cheapness of that which the Govern ment has to preside for—namely, the maintenance of sailors and soldiers, the building of ships, the manufac ture of arms, and so forth. But the twenty-eight millions, or, in other words, two-thirds of the whole taxation of the country, cannot be lessened in its money amount with out disgrace and dishonour falling upon the nation, besides the infinite practical harm which flows from want of com plete confidence in the national good faith. Now, under this state of our national circumstances, it is mere madness to labour for the establishment Of money-cheapness. The cheaper that we make corn and other things in proportion, the dearer we make money, and, consequently, the greater do we m a k e t h e b urthen of the annua l twenty - e i g ht mil lionst whi c h we must pay. I f we were b oun d to pa y six eenmillioninsstoefadqourarttweresntyo.ef twenty-eight tn millions s lly of t p o ou th n e ds pu st b e l r ic . creditors, ster ling, corns e n g, possible. h then ea p, every tWhat a t our e we w o burthenul contend see otheffor t aisa x ,t advantageitothat namight i having g m oft be a o having s n e y tlighttheto pay, and not corn, our policy ought to be to make money 'oaf ivithicehcrea.mneuthnt cheap ; and as the owners of property buy money with that property, just as the owners of money buy property with that money, it is the interest of all tax-ar h e e rs, whose possessions w: e r au t rs ? mt l gh a labour, ur ,x fixed consist of corn or other goods, or of P oi interest, t e a r n e y s t t h , itnog haveels e money except cheap,mo ne y , N o r 0 w stock so i lon ness or dearness of commodities is measured g by amountthee cheap make of money they will exchange for, it is clear that to money cheap commodities must be dear, and vice versa. Every labourer who buys tea, and sugar, and gin, and soap, and beer, and tobacco, must pay a considerable proportion h o l earnings a f eh h wu i u s arntuss tch hee ac po in ur tax . Corn-laws ilta wi s ' s wr N he ep o re w ea , tehdo the h ce m oe ratuuhn because ahcetuwrei cheap,srh esusauty and havett thus u a t s b tu e re th r. e be w tte el r h a t b h l e e m to ere co r m ed p u e e te tio w n it i h n e do that ;he must reduce the labourer ' s foreign themanufac whpriecse. of ß c u o t rn wi w ll o t n h ' e t labourerpurehase purchases find witha similar his w a reduction ges? It i s i in impossible,the gs n whic fora n d ta h tx e h i n oconsider ablew part of the price of these things is ta can not be reduced, except as to one-third part x re maining two-thirds are pledged to the national creditor 'tor in a fixed amount of pounds, shillings, and pence, must be paid all the same, whether it will exchange market for ten millions of quarters of wheat or for twenty e millions. It would be well if all the clamourer s for cheap wheat had the fairness of old Cobbett, who admitted that sion before his eyes, if he pleased to read or had the intellect to understand them, the writer has the hardihood or the dulness to remark that, " to have simply reported on the feasibility of this or that scheme would have been a barren employment, unworthy of the genius of Irish job bing," with more a great deal of the same curious jumble of malice and absurdity. Why, the Commissioners did report on the feasibility of the schemes alluded to : they reported them not feasible, as they were entitled to do, if such was their opinion, and as they were well warranted to do, inasmuch as that opinion was arrived at, after the ma wrest deliberation, the fullest inquiry, and the strictest reasoning from the entire state of facts before them. Let the leaders of this paltry opposition impugn that opinion, if they have wherewithal to do so ; let them shake thegrounds of it if they can ; let them show that the reasonings of the Commissioners are erroneous, or their premises hastily with the cheap wheat must come what he called " equitable adjustment ;" but what would be, in fact, a national bank ruptcy. We can pay to the public creditor twenty-eight millions of pounds sterling per annum, while we can buy three pounds sterling in Mark-lane, with a quarter of wheat ; but if we had to give two quarters of wheat for that amount of sterling money, it is by no means so clear, but very much thoaptrary, that we could continue to pay the public creditorWenty-eight millions a-year. Some of the labourers are foolish enough to think that that is no affair of theirs, but only concerns those who have money in the Stocks. There, they are very much mistaken, and if some of their leaders were not fonder of revolution than of truth, they would tell them so. It is true that the c ountry might recover a nafional bankruptcy, and two or three generations hence our posterity might forget the shame and hold up their heads again—but its immediate results would be the miserable humiliation of the middle classes as well as the upper, and the starvation of thousands of the populace. It would be little consolation to those dying of hunger that corn was extremely cheap.—Morning Post. In Saturday's Advertiser appeared the third letter of the series which Mr. O'Connell is now addressing to the people of Ireland. Fully impressed with the great experience, practical knowledge, and intellectual acumen by which Mr. O'Connell has already achieved so much good for Ireland, we always feel extreme diffidence whenever our own con victions compel us to record our dissent from any plan which he may propose for the redress of his country's grievances. Such was the feeling under which we remon strated against the dissolution of the General Association of Ireland, at a time when its exertions, far from embar rassing, as was alleged, the action of the Government, might have been made most powerfully auxiliary to carry ing the intentions of a Liberal Administration into effect. We foresaw and stated at the time, that, with a strong and ever-vigilant minority against them in the Com mons, and an overwhelming majority against them in the Lords, it would be utterly impossible for Ministers to carry any measures of satisfactory Reform for Ireland, unless enabled to overcome these hostile powers by the support of the people—a support which could in no way be so effectively tendered as through the medium of the Association then about to be dissolved. This was so abundantly palpable as to need no " experi ment" for its demonstration. The Association, however, was dissolved, and the result has but too perfectly realised our anticipations. No satisfactory measure of Reform has been granted to Ireland ; and, to use Mr. O'Connell's own words in commenting upon the failure of his " experiment," " the Ministry, instead of increasing in power to serve us, have actually become less able to carry any nne measure useful to Ireland." What other result could have been anticipated ? From what source were Ministers to have obtained an accession of strength sufficient to overcome the force arrayed against them, but from the people ? And this, under an erroneous apprehension of causing , them embarrassment, was withheld from them—with held, too, in the very crisis of their Irish policy. H— as Mr. O'Connell intimates—the General Association was dissolved at the suggestion of the Irish Government, that Government woefully mistook the elements of its power and stability. Another Association is now in pro gress of organization, and though the objects proposed for its aceomplishrnent are extensive, almost beyond the hope of realisation, yet its name intimates that it is not to be re garded as an effective Society itself, but merely the har binger of something else. Its very name, " Precursor," implies a want of faith in itself, yet confidence is, in politi cal combinations especially, one of the greatest essentials of success. Mr. O'Connell pledges himself to make the " Precursor Society" " rival in zeal and utility the Catholic thought intended te for objects effective, proposed but merely t Association," yet in its name he holds forth the promise of its dissolution, prelimin a a s ry op ifit er w a e tio re n nc) s ,in its formation are certainly quite enoug't to give occupa tion to the present generation of Irishmen. If these ob jects be not obtained, " I shall lift," says Mr. O'Connell, " the flag of repeal." We confsss we cannot understand this policy ; for, difficult as it would be to effect the objects proposed by the " Precursor Society," it would be infinitely more so to effect a repeal of the Union. Yet in failure of accomplishing that which is the least, it is proposed to at tempt that which is the most difficult. When a nation is called upon to put itseli in action, its objects should be distinctly defined. The Catholic Association proved that no legislative change was too difficult for the achievement of a united people. But it was not by change of purpose, nor by making unavailing experiments, that the Catholic Association succeeded. On the contrary, though exposed to frequent prosecutions, and suppressed in different forms, it still persevered ; still, thanks to Mr. O'Connell's agency, rose unscathed by Acts of Parliament. When beat down in one shape, Proteus-like, it re-appeared in another, still bearing aloft the flag of " Civil and religious liberty," and only when its object was in the t ery act of consummation did it gloriously terminate its career by a voluntary dissolu \ Von. Take it all in all, we fear we shall not look upon its like again. It would at least be libellous to institute a comparison between it and any of the societies which have succeeded it. They have b yen nothing - hut a succession of experi mental failures. There were first, the " Repeaters," w h o were half coerced and half cajoled into putting their de m inde in abeyance to those of general Reform. Next came the " National Political Union," the cause of %hose demise was not satisfactorily explained. Then came the " General Association," which no sooner got into a condi tion to carry on active and efficient operations than it was dissolved, in order to try how Ministers, whose policy at the moment most needed its support, could g e t on without its assistance. And now there is th e " P r ecursor So ciety." These experiments, of which we do not u nderstand the purpose, we fear must exhaust the patience and im pair the confidence of the Irish people. The " Ca tholic Association" was the greatest experiment, which should be satisfactory and conclusive to all times, of the mode in which a people may most successfully resist in justice and oppression. With such evidence as its results before them, we really cannot conceit a what need the people of Ireland have of further experiments. It is merely trifling with a people's rights and powers, and ex posing them to the charge of fickleness and caprice, to call upon them one day, for mere sake of experim nt, to " be up end stirring," and the next, without any c hange, or semblance ef change in their condition, to res t " p assive and tranquil," an d confide in their friends. While the people's friends, as they are called, not being able to serve them without the people's own exertion, it must have been as evident yesterday as it is to-day, and will be to-morrow, teat there is no hope of a redress of grievances but in their own untiring and unremitting efforts. To be convinced of this Mr, O'Connell can surely need no further experiment, and th e ref ore it is to be hoped that he will not s uffer the tremendous power which he is now about to put in action to be dissipated on impracticable objects, or exhausted in illusory experiments, but direct it at once, without disguise or indirection, to purposes of certain and practical good.— Morning Advertiser. . - The report of the Directors of the Leeds and Man chester Railway, read at their half-yearly mee ting last week, states that the road to Littleborough, through Rochdale, will be opened in May next, and the whole line is expected to be completed in the year 1840. NEW PUBLICATIONS.—Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough -street, has just published the following interest ing and important new works : —l. Lord Lindsay's Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, 2 vols. post Bvo., with illustrations, 245. bound. 2. 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This charming novel is edited by Miss Landon. On Saturday morning Mr. Mumford, landlord of the Golden Anchor, in Coppice-row, Clerkenwell, died under very afflicting and extraordinary circumstances. Abut a fort night ago a gentleman called upon him, and, without any in troductory observation, told him—wrongfully too—that one of his ( Mr. Mumford's) children, which was in the country, had breathed its last. A few days 'previously Mr. Mumford had seen his child, which was in the enjoyment of excellent health, and the shock had such an effect upon his hitherto iron frame that he fell senseless. He was removed in that state to bed, and medical aid was speedily in attendance, and in the course of a few hours reason was restored. He, however, never got up again ; a disease unknown'to, and which baffled the skill of two of the oldest physicians belonging to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and other eminent men, ensued, and reduced him to a skeleton before he ceased to breathe. The child alluded to, which was at the time mentioned very unwell, hag since recovered. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1838 THE REGISTRATIONS WE STMINSTER.—ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS. (Before Mr. CRAIG.) A STRANGELT-WORDED CLAIM.—Mr. Ridgway, who was described as being an accountant, claimed to have his name inserted in the list of voters, in respect of counting-houses he occupied in Trafalgar-square. The claim of Mr. Ridgway was couched in the subjoined singular manner:—" I hereby give you notice, that I claim to have my name inserted in the list made by you of persons entitled to vote in the election of Members for the borough of Westminster, and that my quali fication consists of counting. houses, &c., rented at No. 4, Tra falgar-square, in your parish, the taxes and rates of which I pay, and sleep upon the premises ; and at your peril deny me my political rights, which I have heretofore enjoyed for the good of the realm. ( Signed) "R.B. H. RIDGWAY. " Description, an Ultra-Destructive." The reading of this person's notice of claim gave rise to considerable mirth. The claim was admitted. The next claimant was a Mr. Coventry. The objection set up was, that he had neglected to pay his assessed taxes. In reply to this :ground of objection, it was stated that Mr. Co ventry had omitted to pay the money, in consequence of the collector not having called for it. Mr. CRAIG was of opinion that he could not admit this claim, inasmuch as the excuse could not be looked upon as be ing sufficient. The claim must be disallowed. Sir Wiliam Heygate claimed in respect of premises situate at 57, Charing-cross. The claim was opposed by Mr. West, oil the ground that the Hon. Baronet was not in the occupa tion of " house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, or other building," at the place in question, within the meaning of the Act; and that if he did, then that his occupation, if any, was of a house for which he was not rated. Mr. CRAIG intimated his intention of postponing his deci. sion, as he saw considerable difficulty in the case.—Judgmen postponed. (Before Mr. MYLNE.) THE CARLTON CHAMBERS. Mr. Columbine, a solicitor, claimed to have his name in• serted on the register in respect of premises in his occupation situate a building known as the Carlton Chambers, Regent• street. Mr. Trott objected that the claimant was not an inhabitant householder. Mr. INITLNE said he should also take time to consider.— Judgment postponed. Several other claims were subsequently made by gentlemen having chambers in the same building. The following is the result of the day's proceedings as re gards the parish of St. James Admitted. Rejected. Adjourned. 6 1 10 0 0 3 Reform claims Tory claims 6 1 13 Allowed. Disallowed. Adjourned. 5 5 33 Reform objections Tory objections .. MIDDLE SEX. —SATURDLV. UXBRIDGE DISTRICT. Messrs. Coventry and Shadwell sat at the Crown Inn, Ux bridge, for the revision of the lists of the parishes in this dis trict, namely—Uxbridge, Hellingden, Ruislip, Ickenham,West Drayton, Harefield, Cowley, Hayes, and Norwood. (Before Mr. COVENTRY.) In the Hellingden list it appeared that the overseer had in serted several names struck out of the registry last year, and where no new claims had been sent in. The error had arisen from adopting the unrevised and not the revised lists of last year, owing to an unwillingness on the part of the parochial authorities to pay 17s. for a book containing the whole re gistry. Having been objected to, however, by the Conser vative party, all such claims were disallowed. (Before Mr. SnAuwat.t..) The name of John Chippenham, which was inserted in the Norwood list, was objected to by Mr. Turner. Mr. Chippenham had described his residence as at 66, Aldersgate-street, London; but a witness, named Norton, proved that he had changed his residence, and now lived not in Aldersgate-street, but in the Regent's-park. Mr. HOLMES contended that the description of residence VIES sufficient, as the claimant gave a place where notice of objection could be served upon him, and where, in fact, all letters were addressed to him.—Claim rejected. RESULT OF THE 13 USINISS OF THE DA Y. ollerSeCTS, taken 26, sustained 26; Conservatives, taken 35, sustained 27 ; Radicals, taken 8, sustained 2. The Barristers will sit at Enfield this day. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, &arr. 22. JAMES BURN'S BANKRUPTCY. The assignees of this Commission, which bears the date sf 1817, appeared before the Learned Commissioner, for the purpose of explaining as to the disposition of 14,0001. which had been set apart for the payment of dividends under 'the estate. It appeared front the statement of Mr. Fothergill, one of the assignees, that under the proceedings the majority of proofs had been purchased by Mr. Coulta ' - therefore, when the divi dends were declared, which had been five in number, the amount on the gross proofs purchased by that gentleman had been paid to him ; and as to the two or three other creditors, they had received their dividends. The official assignee said that, since the Commission under the new law had bnn transferred to him, he had thought it his duty to call upon the assignees for an explanation. He should require a calculation of the various dividends made, with the amount each individual proving on the estate was entitled to receive. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD decided that it was the duty (4' the assignees under the commission, as first appointed, to prepare the statement ; it ought to have beet appended to the proceedings long since. It was then a;reed that the statement should be furnished. The bankrupt was a merchant well known in the commercial circles, and failed for a large amount. CRIMINAL COURT-SATURDAY Richard Williams was capitally indicted for feloniously and wilfully cutting and wound ng John Potts, with intent to kill and murler him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. The Jury, after a abort consultation, found tae prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for one year. Thomas Smith, a " bone-grubber," was convicted of steal ing a child under ten years of age, named William Blizzard, with intent, by force and fraud, to deprive its parents of the iaid child. The Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to be trans ported for seven years. SENTENCES —The sessions having terminated, the Recorder passed sentence upon a feller number of prisoners than was ever known at any prior session. He was accompanied by the Sheriffs (being their last official attendance), Aldermen Har mer, Lainson, and other civic authorities. To be Transported for Ten Years—Mary Smitb, Charles Eusum, and W. Mason. For Seven Years—Mary Mahon, Catherine Connor, Win. Warren, James Abrahams, J. Storey, and Alexander Wilkie. SESSIONAL. RESULTS.-From some unassigned cause the judgments were passed upon the prisoners in most cases at the time of their respective trials, hence at the close of the sessions the inquiry of relatives and parties in other ways con cerned were incessant. The following sentences were passed instanter : The Duellists of Wimbledon Common—Sentence of death recorded against John Young and Henry Webber. Transported for Fifteen Years—John Cocking, Ann Cock ing, Bengamin Buggy, J. Washington Baldree (a judicial error was committed at the previous session in respect of the above, they being sentenced to only ten years' banishment), and A. Armstrong. For Fourteen Years—W. Hutchinson, alias Clift, and Lawrence Doyle. For Ten Years—Ann Hooper, J. Hanam, James Lin field, Robert Roots, Maria Mitchell, W. Percy, J. Mitson, Sarah Shaw, J. Hannam, W. Barratt, J. Mullins, W. Bostock, W. Jones, M. Smith, and H. Brown. For Seven Years—Jane Akerman, Elizabeth Brown, Chas. Zugg, Christian Smith, H. Hogg, W. :Stubbs, Hart Taylor, Charles Hall, Frances Johnson, W. Barrett, S. Polain, J. Gibbs, and E. Pethard. Several prisoners were nominally sentenced to a few days' imprisonment in Newgate, which inferred their discharge af ter some of them had been castigated with the " pickled birch," the cat. o'-nine tails having for a long time ceased to be on instrument of punishment. The Court at its rising, adjourned until Monday, the 22d of October next. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday, Captain Henry William Hyland, Hon. East India Company's Service, was brought up on a warrant, charging him with attempting to excite Richard Rosier, Esq., to commit a breach of the peace, by sending him a challenge to fight a duel. The defendant sent a letter to the com plainant, dated Aug. 13, d e manding an explanation of ce r t a i n ex pressions used towards him , or satisfaction. Mr. WIRE demanded that the defendant should be bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, himself in 1001., and two sureties in 501. each. The defendant, in reply, complained that since the letter was written no notice was taken until the present moment, and that he though the matter had dropped. He was about to enter into an explanation of the circumstances connected with a lady, a member of the complainant's family, which had caused the letter, when he was stopped by the Bench. As the defendant was about to be committed to the Compter for want of bail, two females complained that the Captain had boarded and lodged at their houses without paying them, but the Bench declared that the matter was not within their jurisdiction. One of the assignees of Merrymans, of Leadenhall-street, bankrupts, complained that goods had been obtained of their firm without being paid for; and Messrs. Paul and Co., mer cers, stated that the defendant had ordered 180/. and 1201. worth of cabinet furniture of them, which they did not execute, he having made the payment dependent upon his marrying a lady of fortune. The defendant admitted owing the money, and said that the debts should be paid when he settled his affairs. The Bench, as in the former cases, declaring that it had no jurisdiction in the cases brought forward, committed the Cap tain to the Compter for want of bail. BOW-STREET. Win. Hodgson and Ellen Hodgson, alias Mary Salmon, were brought up for re-examination on a charge of endea vouring to procure contributions by means of letters contain ing fictitious tales of distress. The prisoners, who declined to say anything, were re manded. MARLBOROUGH-STREE T. Mr. Bartram, a pawnbroker, Prince's-street, Soho, was summoned before Mr. CONANT, by Farrant, formerly a police man, for not having printed rates of interest placed in a le gible form in conspicuous parts of the shop. A woman sup ported the information, and proved that in one of the b 0 1 ..?% the printed paper containing the particulars of interest, &c., were defaced. . The assistant said it was the first time Mr. Bartram had ever sustained a conviction. The informers had tried to entrap him many times, but had hitherto not succeeded. The fine being not less than 405., or more than 101., the MAGIS TRATE put the lowest penalty, with costs on the defendant. The money was immediately paid. MAR YLEB ONE. Thomas Jones and Rebecca Fisher, the latter a young woman attired in the first style of fashion, were charged with stealing from the person of Mary Thompson, at the Euston square terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, a pocket-book containing a5l. note and three sovereigns. The prisoners denied the charge ; but were both committed to Newgate for trial. LAMBETH-STREET. Samuel Fletcher, the father of three young men who have been in custody for several days past on a charge of being concerned in the late extensive robbery at the St. Ka tharine's Docks, and who is also connected with a gang of swindlers, who for some years past have been carrying on a most successful system of plunder, Elizabeth Fletcher, and 11 1 imam Melchley, , were placed at the bar, and charged with being concerned with the prisoners already in custody in the commission of the robbery. They were all, on the oath of Lee and other witnesses, who apprehended them on the preceding night in Fox's-buildings, Kent street, Borough, remanded until Friday next. The documents found at the residence of Fletcher furnish ample proof of an exten sive system of swindling and plunder which had been carried on by him and a gang of nearly twenty other accomplished swindlers, many of whom make a very dashing appearance, &c. The publication of the name of one of the party (Chap ple), who is in custody, has been the means of bringing to light several cases of plunder in which he has been mixed up, and the examination of the parties will bring forth some dis closures of an extraordinary character, as illustrating the manner in which some persons in an extensive way of busi ness can afford to sell goods so much cheaper than their neighbours. UNION-HALL Sarah Adams, a young and good-looking woman, was charged with an intention of destroying her child, and then committing suicide. The prisoner, who lived in William street, Waterloo-road, told a fellow-lodger that she intended to destroy herself and child, the latter being a boy two years old, but the son of a person whom she knew before her mar riage. Her husband was in a situation, but she said she could not expect him to maintain the child of another man, a circum stance which preyed upon her mind. She was watched by her fellow-lodger, and on being seen to go into three chemists' shops and purchase laudanum, she was given into custody. She admitted that she contemplated suicide, but denied any inten tion of destroying her child. The child was sent to the work house, and she was locked up in default of bail. TILE LATE FATAL DUEL.—When Mr. Elio left England by the General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Brockelbanh, he stated to the Captain of the ves sel—as a correspondent informs us—that he should surrender in November, when the excitement would be in a great mea sure passed. THE ORATION AT CHRIST'S HosPITAL..--The collection at the conclusion of the proceedings on Friday last for Messrs. Eberidge, Minchin, and Frederick Gifford Nash, who are about to proceed to Pembroke College, Cambridge, was 13W. On former occasions it has generally amounted to 1801. and 2001. The cause assigned for the smallness of the collection is that the Chief Magistrate subscribed only two sovereigns; and the Governors, from etiquette, were unable to be more liberal. We understand the late Lord Mayor presented five guineas, and his predecessor ten.—From a Cor respondent of the Observer. According to a letter of the 10th instant, from Naples, Captain Rolland, of the brig-of-war Ducouedic, ar rived there on the 31st ult. On the following day he was presented at Court, and was graciously received by the King and Royal Family, who made earnest inquiries as to the health of the Royal Family of France. On the receipt of informa tion of the birth of Count de Paris, the Ducouedic fired a royal salute, which was repeated by the Neapolitan fleet. Prince Louis, who is a midshipman in the Neapolitan navy, paid a visit to Captain Rolland on board the Ducouedic, and partook of an entertainment, during which complimentary toasts to each nation and their Sovereigns were mutually exchanged. On the day of the fete of the Piedi Grotta. Captain Rolland was invited to the palace of Prince Leopold, and was pre sented to the Princesses, his consort and daughter, and also to the Prince of Saxe Weimar, cousin of the Duchess of Orleans. At the royal review held on this occasion, while the troops were filing before the King, the Ducouedic fired a salute of twenty-one guns. A grand dinner was given on the following day by the Neapolitan squadron to the officers of the French brig, at which complimentary tcasts were interchanged, ac companied by salvos of artillery. NOTICE TO MARINERS.—We deem it proper to apprise all owners of ships that, by an Act of Parliament passed last month, they are required, under a penalty of five pounds, to give immediate notice in writing to the collector or comptroller at the port of registry of the loss of any British vessel, or if taken by the enemy, burnt or broken up, or otherwise pre; , ented from returning to the port to which she belongs, or shall have, on any account, lost the privileges of a British ship, or shall have been absent from her port of re gistry for the space of three years, stating the cause of such absence.—Liverpool Standard. RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—In the Sheriff's Court, on Saturday, a case (Tarbuck v. the Blackwall Rail way Company) was tried, which involved a point of consider able interest. The plaintiff claimed 455/., the value of two houses belonging to him, and the sum of 1201. for the antici pated injury that would be done to two other houses belonging to him, and which would be deteriorated by the works of the railway. The defendants offered 3201. in satisfaction of the former claim, and denied the right of the plaintiff to compen action for any prospective damage. On evidence being ten dered to prove the latter claim, Mr. Hill, for the defendant, objected to its being received, on the ground that no action could lie for damages that might accrue in future ; in further ance of this opinion he cited several cases in point. Mr. Jones (for the plaintiff) contended that he had a right to com pensation now. The Under- Sheriff decided that the right to call for damages for an anticipated injury did not exist, and that when the injury accrued the plaintiff had his remedy at law. After hearing evidence as to the value of the property, the Jury returned a verdict—Damages, 3601. Messrs. Fielden of Todmorden, have contributed 2801. towards the fund for raising an annuity for Mr. Oastler. —Halifax Express. There are no less than seventeen families almost ruined by the late disastrous conflagration in Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road. Everything that they possessed was consumed. The inhabitants living in the immediate neigh bourhood, and the jury who sat upon the inquest on the body of Mary Thornton, who perished, have taken up their condi tion and set a subscription on foot for their relief, which we trust will be successful. On Friday, at the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, a per son of the name of White pleaded guilty to a charge of having beaten for game, and was fined 31., with 13s. ed. costs, just the amount, the Bench told him, of a game certificate. The defendant said he must " live and learn," and when recom mended not to go to the spot again, he said he would not for a week. On Saturday an inquest was held at St. George's Hospital on the body of a man named Barrett, who died in that institution of erysipelas supervening on the amputation of one of his feet. Deceased had been engaged with a threshing machine on a farm near Hounslow, when, through his own carelessness, his foot got entangled in the machinery, and crushed it so as to render amputation necessary. Verdict " Accidental death," with a deodand of one shilling on the machine. The following robbery was effected at ten o'clock on Saturday evening by a shabbily-dressed short man in a brown coat, with only one eye, or a defect in the vision of one :—A handsomely-bound purple morocco copy of the pic torial edition of the " Book of Common Prayer," valued two guineas, from the shop of Mr. Lovelace, bookseller, William street, Regent's Park. The police were made acquainted with all the particulars within five minutes after the robbery took place. On Saturday afternoon a fire broke out in the house of a gentleman named Peechey, residing on Clapham Com mon, through the carelessness of some carpenters employed on the premises. About half-past ten on Saturday night another fire broke out in the house of a grocer, named Burnard, in Little Pulteney-street, Soho, the snuff of a candle having fallen upon some linen. Neither fire did much damage. On Saturday morning, a respectably-dressed man, about sixty years of age, expired at the University College Hospital, from the effects of a very extensive incision in his throat with a razor. The rash act was perpetrated in Chalk Farm fields on Wednesday evening last, and he was acciden tally discovered by the side of a ditch by two labouring men, who gave information to the police. On Saturday morning, about half-past eight o'clock, a girl named Martha Salter, nine years of age, while crossing King-street, Holborn, was knocked down by a carrier's cart, and one of the wheels passed over her right leg about two inches above the ancle, fracturing the bone into splinters. She was removed in a state of great agony to St. Bartholo mew's Hospital. One of the sailors taken at Emden, in Hanover, be longing to the Bragenza, has hung himself in the prison at Bremen. His name was John Adams. He was a native of Hamburgh. The beautiful village of Heiden, near Appenzell, in Switzerland, running a length of nearly half a league, and cen taining upwards of 100 houses, together with the church, was totally destroyed on the 7th inst. by fire, originating in an iron foundry established there. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE ( From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 22.—Captain Thomas White, R.N 1810, of Buckfast Abbey, is appointe d to the Royal Adelaide, flag ship, vice Sir William Elliott, deceased. The gallant officer arrived at Weakley's Hote l y esterda y (Friday), and eon assumes the command this day. We understand that in sequence of the friendship that existed between Sir 'William Elliott and his respected successor, the followers of the de ceased Captain will all be retained in their respective stations on board the flag ship. H. M. packet Penguin, Lieutenant Luce, sailed on Friday , for Falmouth. H. M. sloop Pilot, Is, Commander Ramsey, will go out of harbour on Monday, for the West Indies. The Atholl troop ship, having troops ea board, is fitting 'with ect'ry possible dispatch. The Camel lighter will sail on Saturday, with stores, for Pembroke. H. M. steam vessel Lighti:i9Z, Lieutenant Shambler, ar rived here from Woolwich, with a raft of mast timber. H. M. steam-packet Boxer arrived here on Sunday for coals, and is expected to leave to-morrow for Ramsgate. H. M. S. Nemesis, 36, having been repaired, was taken out of Dock on Monday. H. M. S. Circe was taken into Dock the same day to be examined. The Rochester lighter arrived on Monday from Pembrok! with stores. The Hamoaze lighter arrived on Saturday Wit" stores from the Cove of Cork. H. M. S. Rover, 16 , Commander Symonds, was warped alongside the Sheer-hulk on Tue sda y to have her masts pot on board. The Tortoise lighter, with Mr. Briada , Master, and a Pa rt / of seamen and riggers, sailed on Monday for Pembroke, t°l, take the Merlin steam-vessel to Liver p ool. The Duck lighter arrived on Tuesday from Portsmouth. Ten hired house-carpenters were dischar g ed from this Yard on Saturday. H. M. packet Reindeer, Lieutenant Dicken, arrived on Wednesday from Falmouth, and came into Harbour on T He ur day to refit. r M ajesty's ship Daphne, 25, arrived on Wednesday fnt ro Pembroke, with a party of caulkers, and again proceeded, aftl having her spars put on board, for Portsmout h, where she To' be commissioned, on Thursday. Ships in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide , San Josef, JupOr' Rover, Pilot, Petrel, Buzzard, Reindeer, Seagull, Atholl• troop-ship, Rochester, and Duck, lighters. The Beagle, surveying ship, Commande r Wickham, was at King George's Sound on the 17 th Ap ril. She was a bout t° go to Swan River for a supply o f p rovisions, havingveieli endeavowed to find a river on the coast in that quarter; the land expedition, under Lieut. G re y , had been equally un successful ; he had not been able to penetrate more than 7 v miles inland, and he had passed over much bad and stn e 4 country, with some patches of rich soil. He had found t% natives very troublesome. On one occasion Mr. Grey 'ld struck by three spears, and but for his powder-horn one Be ag l e have passed through his breast. The boats of the ne, a g; had surveyed the whole coast from Roebuck Bay to Di e 7 George's Sound. Mr. Grey found a small fresh water r i • e l ; unio ti s ", which was explored for 60 miles, but it had no comm tivtli the sea. Several other indentations gave hope of I r a t e gable rivers, but they generally terminated in tna i ,g,, — to swamps. The thermometer ranged from 92 in the °L o g 87 in the night, but the whole of the crew and the explori parties were in perfect health. The Beagle would next P r :b coed with the unfinished surveys of Bass's Straits, and red Sydney in August. An order has this day been received at our Dockyard, e eti ; ermanding the destination of H. M. S. Pique. The f chant steam-ship Sirius has been hired for the conveYsaediPg the Marquis of Clanricarde to Russia. The Pique is ri„or in our harbour, and had there been fitting for the above r pose till the new order arrived. H. M. S. Berschember, 50, an old Dutch shit), °°" 'at at the last Somerset-house sale by Mr. Levy , ship-breakcerfi'de Chatham, was towed by the steamer to Chatham on oil-The last, and on taking the ground, literally fell to pieces- the forecastle broke short off from the body of the ship ; the decks fell in, and the sides tumbled outwards, formingeni most extraordinary wreck that perhaps was ever °dcoct providentially no one was hurt. The ship was stare ° i%ti at the Texel in 1799, and was very probably at least years old. - , g ri g a t4 A DETERMINED SLEEPER „— Henry L ee, -e t he ,o Eliot, who shot Mirfin on Wimbledon Common, In l6 i o . unrivalled in the art of falling asleep. He should set uP eret , new trade, and teach the sleepless the invaluable Is e t he After stating that he saw his master and two others do . 11 o I hill, he gave the following evidence at the Old Bailey •• oe p remained in the cab and fell asleep. Before I went to 5 I saw the prisoners at the bar on the ground." C1 155' THE LATE CASES OF INFANTICIDE AT sty 'S TZR.—We have been favoured with a sight of her Ma l i e v roo l sign manual, granting a conditional pardon to An n „•' n ter . and Dinah Jones, both for child murder, which is c c ', the signed by Lord John Russell. This document condetnt.): t he women to five years' imprisonment, with hard labour , tr_ o e, Penitentiary at Milbank ; three months in each year, at i l l i i ci o f e top e o t f im o e ne o m f o t n h t e h y , isnursvoilvietartyheconßfionyeamleninte;reayn)dthaetythaere ilO. v tli a a is t transported to a penal colony for the remainder of their " —Chester Courant. l' 2 1 ' HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER , SEP••• gs —At our annual' fair, held on Wednesday last , less busine i; was done in hops than we have noticed for many years yagerr but as we did not expect more than a pocket or two ° I 0 0 y hops could be ready for the fair, we did not anticipate many country buyers. The only parcel of new hops sent os thu fair was a small tump grown by Mr. Dent, of Munderfieljifered the quality was very inferior. The supply of yearling; were by the planters was considerable, and as the price s ask hat a t, higher than could be realized from the few buyers from .... t he tended, only 29 pockets of 1837's passed the s cales fr°"' t t he growers, but considerable sales were effected an3°l4sl.esent trade, both in yearlings and 1836'5. The accounts rl)..iatecl that the hops came down much lighter than was 05e14000. upon, and the duty has been bet against a t 5 and 7 ' ~ 66 5 . Prices, per cwt. :-1838's, Os. to Os. ; fine, Os.--183:; 70 5, to 845.: fine, 90s. to 1001.-1836'5, 503. to 65 '• ; lin —Worcester Herald. te NW ..Hop-picking, which was last year aencral tht ° 3o , of out the Worcester and Herefordshire distTict by the I cro ps September, has only just partially commenced. Th e . n d th e , are little more than half an average in many plaCeS, ise wil l duties of the forty persons appointed to collect the eic this year be extremely light. ear hiS Mr. Swinhoe, an attorney, having been r ob of of t" servants were put to the ordeal of eating - boiled ricer two oll i f f could do so, the remaining three, five suspected persons who attempted to cat the rice fear, ".., guilt er...eis ei other unaccountable cause, could not, in spite of all P or ptll9 either from forts, contrive to swallow the stuff. They were, conse c c i lid. i. suspected to be the thieves. —Parbury's Oriental 1 0. iie 5 1 " The latest accounts from Demerara are t° , t . o f A° o ; ult. Every thing bad passed offsubsequent the ls' g e to d net; r a te in the most satisfactory manner. The planters a° n t ii ,j were adjusting amicably the rate of wages. Th e cur , e oter demanded, and which, in most instances, bad been - , arn v with, was 10 dollars t per month. t 1 be 11 e t Tuesday night a quiet industrious farmer,o' h 56 X the of Slattery, was assailed in his own house, near Ern - X' st o of murderous desperadoes, who dashed out his blots' presence of his wife and children,— Tipperary Fr ee o s. P (;) PATENT LEVER WA T 6 6 6 0 With silver deuble-bottom cases ... " 6 ......................... i 1/ $ With silver hunting cases ................................ •••••*„ ili -c oo, This celebrated construction the most accurate •-efera.,,,dr watch can be made) is offered, with the latest itnr. csPr o st i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four 15 $ ‘ !„ - i'd P ° hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and Insic.'"". -- hy to continuo g ping while winding up, at the above pri e ' T. COX SAVORY'S, n joat Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornh ill,L• (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street.) bisey7 N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in ••'!_l------ , 0 lad/ ell°' At Geneva, on the 3d inst., the Baroness Calsbr , 4 01 Captain Vincent Kennett, Bombay army, of a daughterio. $6" On the 20th inst., in Tilney-street, the gcn• A 0 1 ' w ee Stafford Jerningharn, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at the Vicarage House, xington, f $ ,ser shi On the 20th inst., Mrs. T. P. Turner, Bedford -r s o lo 4 stilOno t l-brn. treet'te, A ohe 22d inst., Mrs. F. H. Pratt, of Privies -I o f „ of a daughter. , pr. ' 1 le On the 20th inst., at Hastings, the wife 0 , the fi cLught , r. On the 20th inst., at Artillery-place, Finsbury-501119' of .Ldin Ireland, surgeon, B.:c , of a •daughter. 1' D jowl o ti MARRIED. fr.,.,.ie On the 19th inst., at St. Mar 'C he ltenha m ' A /4 1. ' ' y s, „0 Terreaux, of Frith Manor, Hendon, Middlesex, • , doo , d iughter of Mr. Thomas French, of the above tow n ,' t o ~i3 ta i s righ ' On the 20th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Th°-thirt. Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister- at-law, to Elizabeth' ~ DV' ter of John Joseph Skilbeck, Esq., of Highbury- b ;tree t ; placc ii i o ar! On the 20th inst., at St. George-the -Martyr, S, ° l 3 r idg e , u p" George Wright, second son of W. Wright, Esti- , c ' west us rt Lambeth, and Norwood, Surrey, to Eliza Salter , e,. v i s be of Samuel Carter, Esq., of Blackman-street, Borool; inst.,rtoisle, At the Collegiate Church, Manchester, on the Ric hard _,, Gill, Esq., to Frederica, daughter of the late 113 C W illial ; Esq., of Rusholme. o re, . mar,' On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Hanovero-logeliSAlege' Jones, Esq., surgeon, of Lower Brook-street, t „wog' relict of the late Rev. E. M. Crossfield, of Br l- Oxford, and Minister of Great Sankey, Lancashire. n ear Lodg e ' DIED. Is On the 15th inst John f AidWi c c a tbe • , Ord, Esq., 0 Bognor. tO 15th io a ° 1 At Newton House, Monmouthshire, on the - la ee, atg e .4ll, °lll rine, the widow of George Griffin, Esq., of that P . . opar d I At Richmond, on the 17th inst., Freclerieke.ii,l,26. late ClOr o - f son of Richard Hall, Esq., of I3erners-street, as, e % s q , , t soo On the 18th inst., at Southsea, George Quic l ' e 'd yout l g e- 1 , lain - in the King's Dragoon Guards, and sixth a,,t ...Tois . , d or' the late John Quicke, Esq ef Newton House, li',, a ,,geat , „, Sh' On the 18th inst., at F;i:eham, Hants, Mary , Y' 10, ter of the late W. W. Maidman, Esq., aged 19 • .. ..„aares ' bier bt On the 19th inst., in Seymour-street, Euston 'Pi t cla ttg zabeth Darby, aged 79. 00 0 0 On the 21st inst., at Stamford Hill, Harrie t, 1 pit o°, ber t , of J. A. Droop, Esq., aged 11 months. qr. go ho ., On the 21st inst., Elizabeth Ellen, wife of '' o °. ' Bow-lane, Cheapside. tshi:>„,„../ erse _ On the 13th inst., at Maperton House, Sem wife of r(donel Fitzgerr ld . _.....-_!--- -6 ------,'---- - V I N 'O O --- - - ---- - - - . ---- nO V the e Vint- d ill London : Printed and Published by itrsn • 112, Strand, at Me Sax Office, No. 11 2 :.,, 5. of Middlesex. —Monday, September 24, ioo ..